Palm Tree

Famous quotes containing the words palm tree, palm and/or tree:

    “Now here this, now here this. Reveille. I repeat, reveille. Attention all hands. Because another cigarette butt has been found in the container of the Captain’s palm tree, there will be no movies again tonight. That is all.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “As a tree my sin stands
    To darken all lands;
    Death is the fruit it bore.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)